#si

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#controls #director #every #expression #move

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cure #damn #friends #gave #go

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#enthusiasm #martyrdom #price

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action. ↗

— Derek Luke

#action #behold #busy #calls #daughter

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later. ↗

— Derek Luke

#age #came #conversation #even #front

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting. ↗

— Derek Luke

#acting #college #could #ended #ever

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#away #brain #couple #day #during

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#experience #had #i #i can #killed

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#now #sign #work #years